Installation error: wrong folder name

Marco Maffezzoli <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
I tried today to install miktex 2.9.5700 on windows 10 pro 64bit. The 
installation process stopped and I got an error message. It seems that 
the setup script is trying to access a un folder that doesn't exist. I 
don't know much about installation scripts, but reading the log, 
attached to this message, is seems to me that there is a typo: in 
windows, folders are identifed with "\", not "/".
Hope this helps.
Best,
M

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setup-2015-08-30-13-43.log (text/plain, 10.1 KB)

MiKTeX Setup 2.9.5700 Report

Date: Sunday, August 30, 2015
Time: 13:41:38
OS version: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, build 10240
SystemAdmin: yes
PowerUser: false
SharedSetup: false
Setup path: D:\Utenti\Marco\Download\setup-2.9.5700-x64.exe
UserRoots: <none specified>
UserData: <none specified>
UserConfig: <none specified>
CommonRoots: <none specified>
CommonData: <none specified>
CommonConfig: <none specified>

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C:\Win64\MiKTeX\miktex/bin/x64\initexmf.exe --user-install=C:\Win64\MiKTeX --common-install="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9" --rmfndb --log-file=C:\Win64\MiKTeX\miktex\config\uninst.log --verbose:

An error occurred:
  source file: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winProcess.cpp
  source line: 366
  message: Windows API error 3: Impossibile trovare il percorso specificato.

  info: C:\Win64\MiKTeX\miktex/bin/x64\initexmf.exe
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